Frustrated by his inability to deal with EU migration, Cameron will inevitably redouble efforts to rein in non-EU migration, which might be popular for a while, not least because it might also curb visible migration by non-white Commonweath types.
Britons wanting to bring in non-EU spouses now need an annual income of over £18,600, which excludes more than 40% of British citizens.
And there is a totally unjust anomaly – EU nationals living in the UK are allowed to bring in non-EU spouses, since they are governed by European freedom of movement rules.
We used data from Eurostat to calculate the expected number of TB cases born in non-EU countries at the Eastern border of the EU now residing in EU countries at the Eastern border of the EU.
In the May edition of the National Institute Economic Review, Portes notes that Migrationwatch has estimated that applying the current non-EU migration rules to EU nationals would reduce the current 323,000 net migration total by about 100,000 so further cuts in non-EU migration would be required to meet the target.
The EU's possible solution to these changes, mimicking Australia's offshore detention network, is to establish processing camps in non-EU nations such as Niger, Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey – as a way to keep the problem away from Europe.
The Hesa figures show a 2% increase in non-EU students for 2011/12 including undergraduates.
Banking, law firms, IT and other consultancies are selling well in non-EU countries.
The home secretary's numbers will fit neatly on a Ukip poster, but they do not fit with the downward trend in non-EU student numbers.
"We have also traded as Iceland for many years in other EU countries, and in non-EU countries, including Iceland itself.
The influx of Romanians and Bulgarians has also reached a new high, although that's offset by falls in non-EU immigration and from other central and eastern European countries.
